“A deep portrait of a shallow man, lonely and empty, going through the motions of having a good time…Greg Kinnear gives a creepy, brilliant performance.”
– Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“Gets to you like a low-grade fever, a malaise with no known antidote. When it was over, I wasn’t sure if I needed a drink, a shower or a lifelong vow of chastity.”
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Auto Focus (2002) is director Paul Schrader’s “dramatized” biography of Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear, in a career-making performance), a TV sitcom star (Hogan’s Heroes) who descended into sexual addiction, obsessed with recording his encounters with scores of women. Willem Dafoe co-stars as John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert who encouraged and collaborated with Crane; he becomes a prime suspect after Crane is bludgeoned to death in an Arizona motel room.